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Wife sheds light on missing Hong Kong publisher

Disappearance of five employees of publisher of books critical of China, adds to unease in semi-autonomous Chinese city.

02 Jan 2016 16:51 GMT

Lee Bo went missing on Wednesday night and is the fifth employee of Hong Kong publisher Mighty Current to disappear [AFP]

A missing Hong Kong employee of a publisher of books critical of China is "assisting in an investigation", his wife says, as police also probe the disappearance of his four colleagues.

The disappearance of Lee Bo, 65, adds to growing unease that freedoms in Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous Chinese city, are being eroded, with fears the five men may have been detained by Chinese authorities.

"He said he wouldn't be back so soon and he was assisting in an investigation," Sophie Choi, wife of Lee, told Hong Kong's Cable Television on Saturday.

She described a call she had with Lee the night he failed to return home.